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Intermediate Research Software Development Skills (Python) Lesson Material

This course aims to teach a core set of established, intermediate-level software development skills and best practices for working as part of a team in a research environment using Python as an example programming language (see detailed learning objectives below).

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Slug intermediate-research-software-development-skills-python-lesson-material
Pathway Maintaining & Sustaining Software
Subtopic —
Skill Level Intermediate
OSS Role(s) Contributor, Maintainer
Resource Type tutorial
Time Required 16m
Author The Carpentries Incubator
License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords training training-materials software-development carpentry-lesson python software-engineering-research intermediate software-design
Language(s) en

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Creative Work Status Under development
Date Created 2020-04-23
Date Modified 2025-12-23
Date Published 2025-12-23
Domain General Open Source
Identifier https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/python-intermediate-development
Learning Objectives After this lesson, the learner should be able to: - Apply intermediate software development skills to research projects using Python - Demonstrate collaborative development practices in research environments - Implement testing, documentation, and version control for research software - Design reliable and maintainable research software following best practices - Recognize the importance of code quality and sustainability in research
Notes Intermiediate python knowledge required; at minimum 6 months coding expereince. Useful best practices for software dev.
Ospo Relevance Moderate
Prerequisite Notes This is a python based course | python-packaging | python-packaging-for-beginners | cicd-for-research-software-with-gitlab-ci | unit-testing-and-tdd-in-python | python-package-development-best-practices | intermediate-python | collaboration-in-open-research-projects | introduction-to-git | responsible-data-science | introduction-to-version-control-with-git
Sorting Id 26
Topic Research, Python

Building Better Research Software

Intermediate

CI/CD for Research Software with GitLab CI

Intermediate

Continuous Integration and Delivery with GitHub Actions

Intermediate

Effective Code Review

Intermediate

Finding Users for Your Project

Beginner

Intermediate Python Development

Intermediate